Or, to make a clearer point: During the team's 1986 world championship season, Mets officials thought it would be fun to use Shea Stadium's JumboTron scoreboard to play a fictionalized computer game between the '69 Mets and the current team.

Earlier this week, the Washington Nationals invited our team and their families to the Nat's stadium for Monday night's game with the Braves, brought them onto the field for a ceremony, and put their smiling faces up on the JumboTron.